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dc.contributor.authorVälikangas, Liisa
dc.contributor.authorCarlsen, Arne
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-17T10:25:32Z
dc.date.available2020-01-17T10:25:32Z
dc.date.created2019-06-18T16:09:37Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn0170-8406
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2636798
dc.description.abstractHow can a desire for rebellion drive institutional agency, and how is such desire produced? In this paper, we develop a theory of minor rebellion as a form of institutional agency. Drawing from the work of Deleuze and Guattari as well as from notions of social inquiry and the sociology of punk, we qualify and illustrate minor rebellion as a lived-in field of desire and engagement that involves deterritorializing of practice in the institutional field. Three sets of processes are involved: (i) minor world-making, through establishing the aesthetics and relations of an outsider social network within a major field, including the enactment of cultural frames of revolt and radicalism; (ii) minor creating, through constructing and experimenting with terms, concepts, and technology that somehow challenge hegemony from within; and (iii) minor inquiring, through problematizing social purposes and the related experiential surfacing of the desirable new. Minor rebellion suggests a new solution to the paradox of embedded agency by describing institutional agency as shuttling between political contest and open-ended social inquiry, involving anti-sentiments, but also being for something. The paper also contributes to recasting institutional agency as a process resulting from emergent collective action rather than preceding it. To illustrate our theorizing, we describe the emergence of Robin Hood Asset Management, a Finnish activist hedge fund. At the end of the paper we discuss how minor rebellion raises new questions about the multiplicities and eventness of desiring in institutional agency.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherSagenb_NO
dc.subjectBegjærnb_NO
dc.subjectDesirenb_NO
dc.subjectInstitusjonaliseringsprosessernb_NO
dc.subjectProcesses of institutionalizationnb_NO
dc.subjectOpprørsbevegelsenb_NO
dc.subjectRevolutionary movementnb_NO
dc.subjectAgencynb_NO
dc.titleSpitting in the Salad: Minor Rebellion as Institutional Agencynb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.rights.holderCopyright policy of SAGE, the publisher of this journal: Authors “may post the accepted version of the article on their own personal website, their department’s website or the repository of their institution without any restrictions."nb_NO
dc.source.journalOrganization Studiesnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0170840619831054
dc.identifier.cristin1705862
cristin.unitcode158,4,0,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for ledelse og organisasjon
cristin.ispublishedtrue
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